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Breakfast webinar
The impact of the corona crisis on Norwegian journalism + launch of the media survey ‘2020 Digital News Report’
Time: Thursday, 18 June, 8.30-10.00 a.m.
Place: live streaming on www.frittord.no
Fritt Ord Tribute awarded to Sara Johnsen and Pål Sletaune
Press release, 27 May 2020, Oslo
On Wednesday, the Fritt Ord Tribute was awarded to film-makers Sara Johnsen and Pål Sletaune for the TV series July 22nd.
Sara Johnsen and Pål Sletaune to be awarded the Fritt Ord Tribute
Oslo, 13 May 2020
PRESS RELEASE
Film-makers Sara Johnsen and Pål Sletaune will be awarded the Fritt Ord Tribute for the TV series July 22nd, an eminent artistic contribution to critical reflection about the tragic event that occurred in Norway on 22 July 2011. The protagonists of this drama series are the people who worked at key institutions in Norway, a welfare state based on the rule of law: the public health service, the media, the school system, the church and politics.
The first grants from Fritt Ord's crisis allocations
The first awards from the Fritt Ord Foundation’s extraordinary grants totalling MNOK 40 in response to the corona crisis are now ready. A total of MNOK 15.5 will be distributed to 119 projects.
The Fritt Ord Foundation's Grants for Critics 2020 - 2021
The Fritt Ord Foundation announces a call for applications for 10 annual grants of NOK 200 000 each for critics who write for Norwegian daily or weekly newspapers, or who write reviews for TV/radio.
The Fritt Ord Foundation's deadlines for applications in spring 2020
In connection with the corona pandemic, on 17 March 2020, Fritt Ord announced a call for applications for MNOK 40 in extraordinary grants. The call is for applications for projects related to the situation created by the corona crisis. The first deadline for the extraordinary call for applications was 31 March.
Money and Life - Grants for library literature programmes, 2020–2022
Fritt Ord is announcing grants of NOK 60 000 for communications activities and exchanges of views based on works of non-fiction and fiction on the topic of economics.
The corona crisis: Fritt Ord earmarks an additional MNOK 40 for projects
The virus epidemic has put Norway’s cultural life and public discourse in an extremely difficult situation. In response, the Fritt Ord Foundation will be making an extraordinary contribution to projects that can safeguard the spaces for public discourse, develop new arenas for public discourse and help promote dynamic, vital public discourse.
Call for nominations for the 2020 Free Media Awards
The Fritt Ord Foundation and The ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius hereby invite nominations of independent journalists, bloggers, Internet media and newspapers for the 2020 Free Media Awards.
The coronavirus situation: Grants for activities that are cancelled/postponed
The Fritt Ord Foundation has received queries from several grant recipients who are wondering how to handle different projects in response to the coronavirus, and we will do our best to help find satisfactory solutions.
Filmmakers assess freedom of expression in 2020
Time and venue: 28 February 2020, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m., at Vega Scene, Hausmanns gate 28, Oslo.
Artistic freedom of expression is often an indicator of exactly where we draw the line in a society. Has the work of Norwegian documentalists become more difficult?
Screening of the documentary film "Angels on Diamond Street" and talk about civil disobedience
Time and venue: Thursday, 27 February 2020, 5.30–7.30 p.m., Vega Scene, hall 3, Hausmanns gate 28, Oslo.
The status of freedom of expression in Norway: What do we know – and what don't we know?
What are the greatest challenges to freedom of expression today, and what should researchers examine in greater detail?
Time and venue: 13 Feb. 2020, 7 to 9 p.m., the House of Literature in Oslo.
Three new projects regarding the status of freedom of expression in Norway 2020–2021
Press release, Thursday, 16 January 2020
Have online harassment and polarisation altered Norwegians’ views about freedom of expression? How has researchers’ freedom of expression evolved at a time when knowledge about areas such as climate, gender and integration invariably generate controversy in public opinion? Is artistic freedom of expression under more intense pressure now than before? And when do employers consider a statement to be disloyal?